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Supporters of the opposition Collaborating Political Parties (CPP), of presidential candidate, Alexander B. Cummings, attend a pre-victory rally at the Antoinette Tubman Football stadium in Monrovia, Liberia, 01 October 2023. Liberians are heading to the polls to elect a new president in the general elections on 10 October. The National Elections Commission (NEC), has announced, 20 candidates are vying for the country’s top job, including incumbent president George Weah, who is seeking re-election. Picture: EPA-EFE/AHMED JALLANZO
Women pose after getting their hands and faces painted ahead of the 2023 ICC men’s cricket World Cup, in Amritsar on October 2, 2023. (Photo by Narinder NANU / AFP)Leader of the South African opposition party Democratic Alliance (DA) John Steenhuisen, speaks during the unveiling of the first election posters ahead of South Africa presidential vote in 2024, in Johannesburg, on October 02, 2023. (Photo by Roberta Ciuccio / AFP)People rally in Niamey, Niger, 01 October 2023. The gathering comes a few days after the departure of the French ambassador from the country. The French president announced on 24 September that France would withdraw its ambassador and military personnel from the country. The French military was yet to leave the Niamey base. Picture: EPA-EFE/ISSIFOU DJIBOAnti-riot police officers fire teargas to disperse opposition supporters in Antananarivo on October 2, 2023. Madagascar’s outgoing president and candidate for re-election on November 9, 2023, Andry Rajoelina, denounced on October 1, 2023 the actions of 11 opposition candidates, whom he accused of “creating from scratch” a new political crisis. The Malagasy opposition denounced on September 12, 2023 “an institutional coup d’état” orchestrated by President Rajoelina’s camp, after the Prime Minister, a close associate of the Head of State, was given the task of acting as interim Prime Minister during the electoral period. (Photo by RIJASOLO / AFP)A site visit to the Pretoria showgrounds by the EFF Tshwane Caucus to see the state of disrepair, neglect and vandalism that has taken place there, 2 October 2023. Picture: Neil McCartney / The CitizenA picture taken with a drone shows cars driving on the winding ‘Derech Ma’ale Ha’tsamaut’ road (Independence Road in Hebrew) that leads to the Ramon Crater and the Israeli town of Mitzpe Ramon in southern Israel, 02 October 2023. The site is one of the attractions for hikers in Israel. The 40-km long Ramon crater is the world’s largest erosion crater (makhtesh) which is a unique landform in Israel’s Negev and Egypt’s Sinai deserts that was created some 220 million years ago when oceans covered the area, TouristIsrael and the Israel Nature and Parks Authority describe the geological phenomenon on their websites. Picture: EPA-EFE/ABIR SULTANBelgian Margaux Dandois competes on the balance beam during the women’s qualifying session the 52nd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, in Antwerp, northern Belgium, on October 2, 2023. (Photo by KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)School students pay a floral tribute to a portrait of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to mark his 154th birth anniversary on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, at Egmore Museum, in Chennai, India, 02 October 2023. Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated annually across India on 02 October, to mark the birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. This year marks the 154th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, also known as the father of the Indian nation. Picture: EPA-EFE/IDREES MOHAMMEDRomanian father Alin (R) holds his three years old son Nicolas (L), diagnosed with cancer, as they watch the ‘Pink Flashmob’ show, part of the 10th Pink Days cancer awareness campaign, in the yard of the Bucharest Cancer Institute ‘Prof. Dr. Alexandru Trestioreanu’, in Bucharest, Romania, 02 October 2023. The children dance company ‘Dynamic’ and ‘Melorhythm’ children’s choir from the National Children’s Palace, as well as ‘The Elite’ classical quartet, organized by the ‘Phoenix’ NGO, entertained the cancer diagnosed patients, doctors and nurses at the Bucharest Cancer Institute to mark the International Day Against Breast Cancer, and to riaise awareness on the situation of cancer patients in Romania. Approximately 100,000 new cancer cases are diagnosed in Romania annually, and the number of deaths caused by cancer rises to over 50,000 annually. Of these, 40 percent would be avoidable by effective strategies to combat cancer, which the state health system in Romania is blamed to have failed to implement effectively and functionally, causing the five-year survival rate being much lower in Romania, compared to other European Union countries. Picture: EPA-EFE/Robert GhementPeople walk on the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, 02 October 2023. Domestic tourism is becoming more and more popular in Russia, as restrictions on foreign trips for Russian citizens, amid the ongoing Ukrainian conflict, have forced a huge number of them to travel within the country’s borders. Over the past five years, almost every second person has spent at least one vacation in a Russian region. Picture: EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOV
